Red Alert : Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema /

This book argues that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and film share important connections concerning imaginings of the future. Contributors look at themes across a variety of films, including many international co-productions to explore individualism versus collectivism, technological obstacle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Suppia, Alfredo (Editor ), Mazierska, Ewa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Performing Arts.
Science-Fiction-Film
Marxismus
Science fiction films.
Philosophy, Marxist.
Philosophie marxiste.
Films de science-fiction > Histoire et critique.
Science fiction films > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Marxism and science fiction cinema / Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia
  • First contact or primal scene : communism meets real socialism meets capitalism in early Czechoslovak science fiction cinema / Petra Hanáková
  • Soviet and post-Soviet images of capitalism : ideological fissures in Marek Piestrak's Polish-Estonian coproductions / Eva Näripea
  • Paying freedom dues : Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation science fiction / Mark Bould
  • The biopolitics of globalization in Damir Lukacevic's Transfer / Sherryl Vint
  • Capitalism and wasted lives in District 9 and Elysium / Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia
  • Marxism vs. postmodernism : the case of The matrix / Tony Burns
  • Representation of "gaming capitalism" in Avalon and Gamer / Ewa Mazierska
  • Remote exploitations : Alex Rivera's materialist SF cinema in the age of cognitive capitalism / Alfredo Suppia
  • Rags and revolution : visions of the Lumpenproletariat in Latin American zombie films / Mariano Paz.

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